The Pacific.
The Pacific.
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I never met my wives grandfather but he was shot down in a B17 too.
The military sent a letter to his wife (whom is still living to this day) telling her that his plane was missing and all were presumed dead.
He was the guy in the bottom ball turret and when they made their crash landing was still in it. After a few weeks or months she received another letter saying he survived but was seriously injured. He made a full recovery and the only thing you could tell he was in a plane crash was he was missing part of an ear.- he never asked or received a purple heart until after he died of natural causes in the 80sfooler2